external image SBJ018.jpg&max_width=500&max_height=1000Teacher evaluation of Week 1 - Introduction
Overarching KWL assessment done within the classroom activity.
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What I know?
What I want to know?
How will I find out?




Week 3 -
The Individual Focus Sheet can be used by teachers during student teacher conferences to gauge student progress over the 10 weeks of the integrated unit of work. Such focus sheets could be used at Week 3 and 6 when providing feedback on the blog entries, but is not limited to this.
Individual Focus Sheet
Name:
Comments:
Proposal Preparations, Consideration and Completion
- Organization
- Persistence
- Staying on task
- Independent use of organizers
- Develop effective questions
- Positive attitude
- Undertake tasks independently
- Utilises appropriate resources
- Independent work habits
- Ability to share space and resources
- Creative thinking in a range of contexts

Timelines
- Timelines met
- Weekly self reflection completed

Student led conference discussions with teacher
- Monitor and describe task progress, achievements and their learning
- Use peer, teachers and other adults as learning resources
- Adaptability, persistence and willingness to seek support
- Confidently and effectively communicate in the conference
- Able to question and verbalise opinions
- Articulate thinking processes
- Thoughtful consideration of advice from others

Personal Goals
- Negotiates improvement goals and justifies choices
- Use of evaluation strategies and criteria for measuring progress towards goals
- Personal goals met

Project completed with goals and outcomes completed
- Constructive responses to feedback
- Evaluate own performance

Peer Assessment
- Attentive listening to learn from others
- Provide constructive feedback to others
- Empathy, respect and acceptance of others


Week 6 -
Re-evaluation of student progress using student-teacher conferencing and the Individual Focus Sheets.

Week 7 - Excursion/Incursion
In evaluating what the students have achieved over the last 7 weeks, finish by completing another KWL based self assessment. Example shown below:

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What do I know now?
What do I still want to know?
How will I go about finding out?

For example:
Aboriginal hunters and tribes used the night sky to help them travel across the land

For example:
I want to read more Dreamtime stories about the star constellations

For example:
Find more stories on the internet using key words/phrases in seach engines.
Evaluation of Student Blogs
Rubric for e-blog (to be evaluated in Week 7). Week 3 and 6 should consist of teacher evaluation and feedback to gauge students' progress in using ICT using the Individual Focus Sheets and student-teacher conferencing.

Beginning
Developing
Established
S core out of 50
Overall use of blog
Some blog reflections and comments have been completed
Blog reflections have been completed, though not all of them give evidence of a substantial contribution
All weekly blog reflections have been completed, all of which are substantial, including references to other websites
10 marks
Personal Response to Key Concepts
Blog reflections convey little evidence of a personal response to the issues/ concepts raised in the weekly lessons
Blog reflections convey evidence of a personal response to the issues/concepts raised in the weekly lessons.
Blog reflections convey extensive evidence of a personal response to the issues/concepts raised in the weekly lessons.
20 marks
Engaged Writing
Blog reflections demonstrate some evidence of correct spelling, grammer and punctuation
Blog reflections show a good command of the English language
Blog reflections demonstrate excellent spelling, grammer and punctuation
10 marks
Critical Thinking
Blog reflections demonstrate little use of higher order thinking (analysis, synthesis and evaluation of ideas)
Blog reflections demonstrate some use of higher order thinking (analysis, synthesis and evaluation of ideas)
Blog reflections demonstrate use of higher order thinking (analysis, synthesis and evaluation of ideas)
10 marks

Week 10 - Learning Celebration
Example Group Work Student Self Evaluation Form
How often/well did I…?

Seldom
Sometimes
Often
Contributed ideas



Listened to and respected the ideas of others



Positively encouraged others in my group



Compromised and co-operated



Was flexible and willing to follow others



Took initiative when needed



Helped to solve problems



Took risks by exploring something new to me



Did my share of the workload/tasks